• featured young artist Wiener Konzerthaus 2025/2026 •

Despite her young age, Verena Tranker is already a sought-after soloist and is praised by the press for her “beautiful, delicate, and playful soprano with secure high notes” as well as her “stage presence” and “coloratura pearls.” She has performed multiple times in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein Vienna and has sung on several occasions with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Vienna. Engagements have taken her to venues such as the MusikTheater an der Wien, the Tiroler Festspielen Erl, the Lehár Festival in Bad Ischl, the Burgtheater Vienna, Stadttheater Fürth, Theater Augsburg, Festspielhaus Worms, and the Ruhrfestspielhaus Recklinghausen. Still at the beginning of her promising career, the soprano has already developed a wide-ranging repertoire from the Renaissance to the 20th century . In addition to her opera and concert performances, Verena Tranker is a passionate Lied and Wiener-Lied singer.

In the upcoming 2025 / 2026 season, she will make her debut at the Wiener Konzerthaus as an outstanding emerging artist within the Musica Juventutis concert series. Additionally, Verena Tranker will return to the MusikTheater an der Wien and the Tiroler Festspielen Erl. In the summer of 2026, the young soprano will be performing for the first time in the Summer Arena of Bühne Baden.

Highlights of the 2024 / 2025 season include the staged tour "Bravissimo!" at the MusikTheater an der Wien, Comtesse Anastasia in Die Csárdásfürstin (Kálmán) at the Scharoun Theater Wolfsburg among others, Adele in Die Fledermaus (Strauss) with the NEUE OPERETTE WIEN (Germany tour) and the role of Fantasca in Indigo und die 23 Räuber*innen (Strauss) at the Johann Strauss Festival 2025 (Intendanz Roland Geyer) in Vienna. In concert, she will be performing Bach's church cantata Meine Seel erhebt den Herren (BWV 10) with the St. Pölten Cathedral Music Ensemble, Schubert's Mass in C major with members of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra at the Jesuit Church in Vienna, and with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the University of Vienna in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein. Another debut for the rising soprano will take place in July at the Carinthischer Sommer – the renowned festival for music and literature under the artistic direction of Nadja Kayali. Together with Wolfgang Kogert (organ) and Nadja Kayali (recitation), she will present selected songs from 17th- and 18th-century England.

She is also a selected participant in this year's "Exzellenz Labor Oper" under the artistic direction of Hedwig Fassbender.

In 2023 / 2024 Verena Tranker sang the solo cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (BWV 51) in the Lutheran City Church in Vienna, Haydn's “Paukenmesse" and "Et incarnatus est" from the "Great Mass" in C minor KV 427 (Mozart) in Göttweig Abbey, Pamina and First Lady in Die Zauberflöte (Mozart) in a concert version at the University of music and performing arts Vienna, Zelenka's Miserere in the Franziskanerkirche Vienna with the Cappella Albertina Vienna and Mozart's "Loreto Mass" KV 275 in the Augustinerkirche Vienna. From October 2023 to January 2024, she made a guest appearance as Comtesse Anastasia in Kálmán's Die Csárdásfürstin with the NEUE OPERETTE WIEN as part of a tour of Germany, including at the Stadttheater Fürth, Festspielhaus Worms and Augsburg theatre.

A W A R D S

Verena Tranker is a multiple prizewinner of the international competition "200 JAHRE STRAUSS MUT-SPECIAL EDITION" in cooperation with the Gärtnerplatztheater Munich and the Johann Strauss Festival 2025 (Second Prize + two special engagement prizes from MusikTheater an der Wien & Johann Strauss Festival 2025).
In 2024, she also won the Musica Juventutis audition at the Vienna Konzerthaus, the support program of the Vienna Konzerthaus dedicated to advancing young, highly talented Austrian musicians.

She is a graduate of the artistic program in classical operetta with Wolfgang Dosch, Laszlo Gyüker (Volksoper Vienna) and Christian Koch at the MUK Vienna (graduated with distinction). After studying abroad at the Royal College of Music in London (RCM, UK) with Janis Kelly, she is currently in her final year of vocal studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW) with Prof. Julia Bauer-Huppmann. She has attended master classes with Valérie Guillorit, Anne le Bozec, Roger Vignoles, Adrian Eröd, Susan Manoff, and KS Giacomo Aragall.